Playing with Friends

Kaleb and Lukas playing cars.



Addison, Alex, and Lukas on the playground after school.



Corina and Paizlee hanging out.



We are all so blessed by our many friendships! We thank each and every one of our friends for being exactly who you are!

Easter 2010

Aren't they cute?!



My little model!



So pretty!



He is waiting for his surprises (his Easter baskets).



Swayne family of FOUR!



This is the routine Lukas went through during his egg hunt.

Amazing!

I have got to be the most blessed woman in the world! I have two amazing children who are healthy (well Lukas tries to be at least), beautiful/handsome, and perfect!! I simply cannot believe that God blessed me so much twice. Lukas is an amazing big brother. He is certainly in the "I need attention" phase of Corina being born, but he is so sweet and gentle with her. I can't wait to see how their relationship develops over the years. I hope that one day Corina loves and appreciates her big brother the same way he loves her.

Lukas holding Corina for the first time by himself.



He is playing cars with her.



Reading her a book.



He is showing her his wind up alligator.



Lukas being silly. (Sorry about the odd orientation, but it uploaded funny.)



Corina at one week old.

Corina Grace Swayne

Corina was born via c-section on March 27, 2010 at 12:13 pm. She weighed 8lbs 10 oz and measured 21.5 inches. She lost a little too much weight while we were in the hospital, but she's now gaining it back so doctors aren't worried anymore. She is healthy and beautiful! She looks almost exactly like Lukas when he was born, so I'll have to make sure and label all "clothing non-descript" pictures.

Ready to have a baby!!





Mommy and Daddy and Corina



One of the nursery nurses made a bow for her hospital hat. It was so cute!



A family of four!



Mema and Grandad meeting Corina.



Uncle Ryan and Aunt Ashley meeting Corina.



Papa meeting Corina.



Corina and Daddy.



Mimi meeting Corina.



Corina and Mommy.



Getting ready to go home!





All ready!



A very proud big brother holding Corina by himself.

Decorating

It has been very exciting to be able to decorate a room exactly how we wanted it for Corina, since when Lukas was born we were squeezing him into our apartment. Lukas helped as much as we dared let him, and has enjoyed helping prepare everything for Corina. It's so much fun to hear him talk about all the things he's going to do with her and teach her when she's born. I do hope he's not too disappointed that for the first month or two she won't be much more than a noodle.

Before



Lukas is cleaning a dirty spot on the carpet.



Happy Daddy working on his daughter's room.



Very happy big brother because he's about to PAINT! We tried to let him paint in just his diaper, but he insisted he needed clothes.





Lukas helping Papa find the right tools for putting the furniture together.



Papa and Daddy working on the furniture.



After







It's kind of dark, but this is video of Lukas painting. :)

Family Day

Today (3-16-10) Eric took off work so we could have a family day before Corina arrives. We debated about doing several things, and finally decided on simply having a Lukas oriented day. So we started off the day with donuts. Lukas accompanied Daddy to the donut shop to make sure the right ones were bought. Then we got ready and went to the park. The weather today wasn't the best for playing outside since it was cloudy, windy, and barely 50 degrees when we went. Aside from the fact that we were all shivering when we left the park, we had a lot of fun. After freezing at the park, we went to Ci Ci's for a yummy pizza lunch. Lukas was able to eat his favorite Mac anc Cheese and Alfredo pizzas with the added bonus of lemonade to drink. After he ate Eric and he went to "play" the video games in the back. To play these games Lukas watches the intro movie screen and moves the controller. One of these days he'll realize that this isn't actually playing it, but I'm certainly not going to tell him. :) He did spend a quarter to get a prize from one of the prize machines. He got a bouncy ball. After naptime, we went to run an errand, eat dinner, and play trains at Barnes & Noble. All in all it was a very fun day! I'm really glad we took a day to make it all about Lukas before Corina arrives and there's a family fruit basket turn over.







Eric is not the reason this rope is on the ground. It is always like that.





I did manage to get myself in a picture.



Feeding the ducks and seagulls.

Results

Sorry about the lack of updating on our experiment. The experiment went just as planned! The dinosaur did in fact grow quite large. Lukas watched it pretty intently for the first day, and when not much happened he kind of gave up the watch. The day after he did ask after its progress, but that was about it. Finally by the time 48 hours had passed (and the dinosaur was as big as it was going to get) we checked it and took it out. He was very excited that it had gotten so big, and he immediately put another dinosaur in the water to grow. :)